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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has announced that he will not seek charges in connection with the death of Tory Sanders, a Black Tennessee man who died in 2017 after officers restrained him in jail in Mississippi County.

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A lawyer in Missouri is, by definition, a dues-paying member of The Missouri Bar. A bill under consideration in a House committee would change that.

The Missouri Senate has approved a bill intended to offer health care workers, manufacturers and businesses liability protections related to the COVID-19 pandemic — though not as quickly as its backers had hoped.

A Missouri law that sets out how to recover damages against a deceased person does not enable defendants ad litem to raise arguments about insurance coverage and recovery, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has ruled.

Richard Callahan, a senior Cole County circuit judge and former U.S. Attorney, has been named to oversee the high-profile weapons cases against a pair of St. Louis attorneys.

Armstrong Teasdale is excited about its new office in Wilmington, Delaware. The Pennsylvania law firm whose lawyers it acquired, not so much.

The Missouri Senate has approved a bill intended to offer health care workers, manufacturers and businesses liability protections related to the COVID-19 pandemic — though not as quickly as its backers had hoped.

The decades-long back and forth between state lawmakers and the Missouri Supreme Court about medical malpractice damages caps is entering its next chapter.

In this latest edition of Missouri Lawyers Media’s POWER LIST, we examine the most powerful attorneys in appellate law.

After shelving its plan for nearly a year, the St. Louis County Circuit Court is moving forward to assign private attorneys who live and work in the county to defend indigent clients in low-level felony cases.

Dan Viets did more than almost anyone to make medical marijuana legal in Missouri. Now he’s wondering how much longer it can remain part of his practice.